Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke yesterday showed no sign of giving ground on the reforms set out in the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , due for its second reading in the Commons today . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , pressure groups are variously encouraging retailers to open on a Sunday or urging local authorities to prosecute the law breakers , and labour MP Ray Powell 's Private Member 's Bill ( supported by the Keep Sunday Special Campaign ) is due for its second reading on 22nd January . |
| 4 | It relates to the Education ( Schools ) Bill which is due for its Second Reading next Tuesday . |
| 5 | Many of the Sutton pupils were very apprehensive about their first visit to Russells Hall . |
| 6 | Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 . |
| 7 | Same team , similar bike — Capirossi has kept things as simple as possible for his first season as defending world champion |
| 8 | Meanwhile , as the Century was nearing completion , Gould was at pains to predict the most popular subject possible for his next publication . |
| 9 | But manager Clough is anxious to remove some of the pressure from the midfielder , so outstanding during his first spell at the City Ground . |
| 10 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 11 | For good measure he pitched to under a yard on the 17th for his seventh birdie and the lowest round of his five-year tour career . |
| 12 | going to ask that as my next question . |
| 13 | A further meeting a week later produced more promising results with an attendance of twelve seamen who paid one shilling each as their first contribution . |
| 14 | Below are the world 's major languages ranked according to the number of people who have each as their first language — their mother tongue . |
| 15 | I 'll swap er , midi hi-fi system and that for her first prize . |
| 16 | She waited unruffled for his next question ; a woman distressed but confident in her ability to handle any situation . |
| 17 | Brian Garrow from America , ranked in the world 's top 90 before an injury six months ago , looks set to give Bates one of the strongest challenges — yet was dismissed 6–4 6–0 leaving the coast clear for his second final . |
| 18 | You can use either but the latter are perhaps easier for my first idea — Christmas angels or other Christmas figures . |
| 19 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 20 | Rymer ( right ) looks embarrassed about his last corner antics . |
| 21 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 22 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 23 | More than half of our first intake acknowledged that they would have preferred a traditional course , having the study of literature as its principal component . |
| 24 | I watched half of it last week , as soon as you told me off I I put it off . |
| 25 | Most of the rest moved to Loch Laggan , after charges of trespass were brought against some of them last year . |
| 26 | ‘ Even I could n't see some of them last week . |
| 27 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
| 28 | Rumour has it that Stevo ( below ) signed some of his first acts , including Soft Cell , while standing on his head . |
| 29 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 30 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |